Betrayal is the horrific antithesis to commitment. It is everything that a relationship is not. Betrayal is an action so contrary to the essential ingredients of trust and love that firmly undergird a relationship that we are abhorrently stunned when it happens to us. Yet, it does happen to us, and it happens more than once. To heal from the … [Read more...]
Sacrifice – Uncentered, Unselfish, Uncut
Bigger on the Inside
Releasing Your Grip – Possessing Life is Letting Life Possess You
We hold on and we hold on hard. We hold on to a whole bunch of things. And what we choose to hold onto is based on whether we deem those things to be of sufficient value or not. Then, the intensity of our grip on each of these individual things is determined by the degree of value they each have to us. Because we value so many things and because we … [Read more...]
Reality – The Extent of Your Reach
It seems that our singularly reality is sorely limited. The reach of our reality rarely goes beyond the reach of our experience. And such limitations are hugely limiting. Yet, despites its limitations we see our singularly reality as being limitless, or nearly so. And because we do, we have terrible difficulty believing that anything else exists … [Read more...]
Christmas – A Decision to Counter Death by Death
Purpose in Pain
The reactionary response that pain naturally and quite adamantly elicits is one designed to eradicate the pain. Our knee-jerk reaction when in pain is to determine methodologies, or strategies, or obtain resources designed to eliminate the pain as cleanly and as quickly as possible. Any other notion is typically never even considered in light of … [Read more...]
Consequences – Trying to Side-Step the Inevitable
Issac Newton said, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” If only that weren’t so. Too many times we formulate plans that we simply love. What we don’t necessarily love are the consequences that come along with those plans. Sometimes those consequences can be real spoilers, so we do everything we can do to avoid them, deny … [Read more...]
Depression
Positive Thinking or Just Plain Truth
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Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC